All I can add is that it was a fantastic game of rugby and fair ***** to New Zealand. No other team would have been able to come back after that first half pasting. McCaw and co were blown away and some of the hits were sickening. Savage intensity and it was a fantastic spectacle HT they dusted themself down and responded like the winners that they are.
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You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
Saw this yesterday:
Fair play to Best, serious, borderline insane commitment.
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He's been carrying a hamstring strain for a few weeks and was replaced after the kick by MadiganOriginally Posted by Stuttgart88
It's absolutely insane, one missed tackle or bad catch and he'd make what's already a serious injury far far worse.
Where do RTE get them from? Tom McGurk with the affected post accent (don't think he picked it up in Antrim where he is from), at the end of the Italian game, says the Championship decider is now in Paris, totally ignorant apparently of the fact that the England v Wales game had still to take place and that the winner was also going to be in with a shout.
Looking forward to that game in Paris. Is it written in the stars that the O'Driscoll will sign off with a Championship?
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Yes but that game will be a decider, in so far as no champion will be crowned until it is completed (unlike England/Italy).
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Well he was right. Regardless of the England result, France-Ireland is the final game and will be the decider.
I feared this game on saturday night ..... will we choked again?
Is that a riddle?
We won.
I guess we didn't "choked again".
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
We "choked again" pretty good in the final phase to win the turnover
So lucky not to be awarded a penalty for that last scrum. Why did the coach change the dominant front row to one that was obviously inferior and got hammered in the last three scrums.
Was sure they would lose in those last couple of minutes when France were awarded a penalty in their half after a prolonged period of Irish possession - memories of the New Zealand game. We were suddenly deep in our own half.
Won by a whisker but a win nonetheless. Great viewing and delighted despite not being a big rugby fan.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Super contest. I think we did our best to lose it though. Healy could have been binned for that infringement and the forward pass was a basic error with the line at their mercy. We got the big scores at the big times though and on were the better team but the score didn't fuly reflect that.
When Rob Kearney launched that garryowen inside his own 22 I feared that we were determined to lose it in the last minute. Bizarre decision not to take it into contact with two-ish mins on the clock.
I was watching on French TV by the way, I thought that French try at the post shouldn't have been allowed for a host of reasons - what did I miss?
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Great match - but we nearly did throw it away in the end - Sexton kicking, Healy head butt, Kearney with a minute to go decides to do a up and under (what was that about) instead of holding onto the ball or kicking it right back into their 22!!!! and the forward pass by france - first time actually the french panic and threw it forward, if they had took they time, they be in the corner.
However it was great to give BOD this send off - by god we are going to miss him!
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The ref was convinced it was a good score in real time and awarded the try. If he had referred to TMO it'd surely have been disallowed.
I missed any controversy over that score, no way to hear the TV where I was, what was the issue?
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Well I noticed that the grounding alone was well dodgy and I don't think it was properly grounded but I also was unsure on the rules around playing near the post. Once that first contact was made I thought play would stop and restart with a 5m scrum.
My knowledge of the newer rules in rugby is not what it used to be when I was back home.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Before the ball touched the post it was knocked on.
It would have been a killer if we'd lost on that basis.
Just about recovered from the insanity of watching all that yesterday.
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